TORRINGTON -- Walmart on East Main Street was evacuated briefly Monday evening after store employees heard a mysterious voice over their in-store radio system claiming a bomb was in the building, police said.

Police Sgt. Thomas Rouleau said police were initially called to the store for a shoplifting complaint, but as police were there, the store staff also informed officers that they had also heard someone on the radio make the bomb threat. Rouleau said staff were trying to figure out whether any staff had made the threat as a joke and determined that no one knew the source of the radio transmission.

Police were informed of the threat as much as an hour after it was initially made, Rouleau said.

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